Be Careful What You Wish For

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Iain Dowie was appointed in December 2003 and the club went up the table from the relegation zone to win promotion in May 2004, beating West Ham United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in the play-off final, fulfilling Jordan's promise of promotion within five years. However, the club remained in the Premier League for just one season before being narrowly relegated in 2005. In May 2006, having accepted Dowie and Jordan had differences but the same goal, Dowie left the club by mutual consent. [8] However, towards the end of the month Dowie joined Charlton Athletic as their new manager, prompting Jordan to issue a legal writ against him, [9] claiming Dowie had lied about his reasons for departure. Simon Jordan doesn't mince his words. After making million in mobile phones he decided to buy his boyhood club, Crystal Palace. At 31, he became the youngest chairman ever. He was also the most outspoken, announcing at his first Palace press 'I don't give a **** about football protocol.' The book was a critical and commercial success, it was published by Random House achieved an award at The British Sport books awards and was a finalist in the William Hill sports awards. In 2006 Jordan part funded and executively produced Sweeney Todd, a film featuring Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy. But in truth this gripped me all the way and wouldn’t allow me to ever let distractions interfere and accept missing a second of SJ’s accounts.

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In 2012 Jordan published an account of his life, an autobiography Be Careful What You Wish For. The book recounts his business success in the cellular phone business, but mostly focuses on his time as the youngest ever owner of a professional football club as chairman of Crystal Palace Football Club.

Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. ii) Dyer, Ken (3 September 2001). "Steve and Ron's chemistry is perfect formula". Evening Standard. Breathtakingly honest, highly controversial, humorous and full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Be Careful What You Wish For is far more than a football book. It is a social commentary on the culture of great wealth and ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream. The perfect Christmas gift for all football fans.

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Jordan succeeded in his High Court battle against Dowie, with Mr Justice Tugendhat ruling that Dowie had lied when negotiating his way out of his contract at Crystal Palace. Dowie won the right to appeal against that decision, leading to it being heard in the Court of Appeal. In April 2008, Crystal Palace settled out of court with Dowie. [11] Selhurst Park [ edit ] Michelle Dewberry finally leaves hospital with son after six week stay". hulldailymail.co.uk. 3 September 2020 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. And mainly get attracted to people who narrate it themselves for one and have had a career that has been worked at and tend to have controversy to contend with.

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Jordan, Simon (7 August 2005). "Guardian Unlimited Football: Columnists: Increased control needed for agents". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Jordan was an accomplished young footballer signing schoolboy forms with both Chelsea and Crystal Palace. He has described himself as being "good enough to be a professional, but mentally I wasn't interested. You often get players who have bags of talent, but not the required application. I was one of them." [2] His father Peter Jordan played for the Palace youth team, but never made an appearance for the first team.

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PDF / EPUB File Name: Be_Careful_What_You_Wish_For_-_Simon_Jordan.pdf, Be_Careful_What_You_Wish_For_-_Simon_Jordan.epub Find sources: "Simon Jordan"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Jordan is in a relationship with businesswoman and broadcaster Michelle Dewberry, [26] and in July 2020, the couple had a boy. [27] Jordan has resided in Marbella [28] and London.

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He can be blunt, forthright, and uncompromising. While these are not qualities I normally find particularly endearing in a person, I really admire Jordan for his tenacity and bravery in lifting the lid on some of the ills of modern-day football. Agents are painted in a particularly treacherous light, but then again their reptilian practices are by now well known to the majority of us who follow the game. New wage delay for Palace players". BBC Sport. 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Breathtakingly honest, highly controversial, humorous and full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Be Careful What You Wish For is far more than a football book. It is a social commentary on the culture of great wealth and ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream. In the late 1980s or early 1990s he was invited by a friend, James Wright, to join him in his business, Wright Connections, selling mobile phones via adverts placed in Loot and Exchange and Mart. Jordan and Wright rented an office from Delta 5, another mobile phone dealer, and the business lasted for a short time before changing its name to Corporate Cellular Ltd (CCL). This business was not considered to be a great success either and Jordan left in the early 1990s.

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Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures.Fidler, Chris (14 April 2006). "Jordan: why I waved goodbye to football". South London Press. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Listen to this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most recognisable figures. Jordan, Simon (16 April 2006). "Simon Jordan: gambling is not a problem". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 June 2021. Ten years later, Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. In 2018, Jordan began a relationship with the sports broadcaster Talksport, featuring on shows with Danny Kelly and being nominated for sports pundit of the year in 2019. In 2020 after the success of his appearances, he joined Jim White on one of Talksports flagship shows. As of 2022, he often appears with Danny Murphy and Martin Keown.